W Quotes
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“We're all islands shouting lies to each other across seas of misunderstanding.”
Source: The Complete Works of Rudyard Kipling (Illustrated): 5 Novels & 440+ Short Stories, Complete Poetry, Historical Military Works and Autobiographical Writings (Kim, The Jungle Book, The Man Who Would Be King, Land and Sea Tales, Captain Courageous…)
“We're all just a bunch of sinners, but we do the best we can.”
“We're all just a bundle of habits shaped by our memories. And to the extent that we control our lives, we do so by gradually altering those habits, which is to say the networks of our memory. No lasting joke, or invention, or insight, or work of art was ever produced by an external memory. Not yet, at least.”
Source: Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything
“We're all just a part of this large, spiraling, constantly fluid hierarchy and changing. At some points in your life, you feel crushed by that, depending on who you come in contact with.”
“We're all just animals. That's all we are, and everything else is just an elaborate justification of our instincts. That's where music comes from. And romantic poetry. And bad novels.”
“We're all just bags of bones and muscle and hormones; I'll never understand what makes our minds do the things we do. It's like that statue of the monkey holding a skull. We're trying to use a thing we don't understand to understand ourselves.”
“We're all just big kids. That's all we are. We are artistes. We grew up wanting to be part of the fantasy of the fairy tales and the stories.”
“We're all just facilitators. The real business is done by readers.”
“We're all just in our bodies for a moment in our life. Such a brave and lovely act it is to let the body celebrate.”
Source: In the City of Shy Hunters
“We're all just in the muck trying to believe we're capable of greatness, but closer to breaking than we want to admit. And we tell ourselves stories-about ourselves,but maybe also all these stories about other people, about characters-as a way to hide from how small we are.”
“We're all just kids who grew up way too fast.”
“We're all just memories of our future selves.”
“We're all just people, some of us accidentally connected by genetics, a random selection of cells. Nothing more.”
Source: August
“We're all just songs in the end. If we are lucky.”
Source: George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons
“We're all just trying to fit in and find ourselves, particularly when we're growing up.”
“We're all just walking each other home.”
“We're all killers at heart . . . . I have never taken anybody's life, but I have often read obituary notices with considerable satisfaction.”
“We're all kind of basically involved in the same thing, putting up a blank of some kind and filling it in.”
“We're all learning here; the best listeners will end up the smartest.”
“We're all liars when it serves our purpose.”
Source: Inkheart
“We're all like children. We may think we grow up, but to me, being grown up is death, stopping thinking, trying to find out things, going on learning.”
“We're all like detectives. We want to figure things out. Life, you know, we want to figure out life, and we want to figure out what's going on, so it's beautiful. It's beautiful that people are thinking.”
“We're all like little ants who scurry around with the materials that are at hand right now. Each generation finds new materials. Its just evolution, isn't it?”
“We're all like the little sailor. From the harbors we hear the strains of accordions and the murky soapy noises of the docks, from the mountains we receive the dish of silence that the shepherds eat, but we don't hear more than our own distances. And what distances without end and without doors and without mountains!”
“We're all living blinkered lives, and we're not seeing what's going on and looking to change it. I'm not saying that everyone has to make a political statement, but we need to be more aware of what's happening and why.”
“We're all living contradictions, trying to survive in a world filled with hypocrites”
Source: Between Lovers
“We're all living in a casino. It's just Vegas. Everything is on camera. Everything is being recorded. Everything is on audio. The truth is we all have access to everybody else's information.”
“We're all living in different states and we all have different systems within those states. Even on the most basic personal level, it affects me.”
“We're all living on borrowed time. The trick is to come up with works of sufficient interest to pay off the debt.”
“We're all living under the threat of violence and terror these days.”
“We're all lonely for something we don't know we're lonely for. How else to explain the curious feeling that goes around feeling like missing somebody we've never even met?”
“We're all looking at the people around us, the people who have gone before us who have succeeded in recovery and have long-term sobriety and they are an illustration for us of how good it can be.”
“We're all looking for a plan that will work. The current plan is not working, and 21,500 additional troops -- it's a snowball in July. It's not going to work.”
“We're all looking for acceptance and love, beginning with our parents. And then when you find [that] out, you start working with yourself, you start to find out that the acceptance and love that you find somewhere else mirrors [you] in all kinds of different situations. That type of love you can only find in one place: in yourself. And many times we're all looking for it somewhere else.”
“We're all looking for love, in our confusion, until we find our way back to the realization that love is what we already are.”
“We're all looking for something, something to be.”
“We're all looking for the highest, fullest expression of ourselves as a human being.”
“We're all looking for those moments - a relief. That's why people go out and treat themselves.”
“We're all looking from the point of view of our own reality tunnels. And when we begin to realize that we're all looking from the point of view of our own reality tunnels, we find that it is much easier to understand where other people are coming from. All the ones who don't have the same reality tunnel as us do not seem ignorant, or deliberately perverse, or lying, or hypnotized by some mad ideology, they just have a different reality tunnel. And every reality tunnel might tell us something interesting about our world, if we're willing to listen.”
“We're all lost souls here. It's a good thing we've got each other.”
Source: Die For Me: Number 1 in series
“We're all lost. The best chance we got is to wander this life with the people who matter.”
Source: The 'Burg Box Set
“We're all mad here.”
Source: Alice in Wonderland / Alice Im Wunderland: Alice's Classic Adventures in a Bilingual Parallel Text / Die Klassischen Abenteuer Von Alice
“We're all mad, the whole damned race. We're wrapped in illusions, delusions, confusions about the penetrability of partitions, we're all mad and in solitary confinement.”
Source: DARKNESS VISIBLE
“We're all made of stories. When they finally put us underground, the stories are what will go on.”
“We're all made of stories. When they finally put us underground, the stories are what will go on. Not forever, perhaps, but for a time. It's a kind of immortality, I suppose, bounded by limits, it's true, but then so's everything.”
“We're all made to make mistakes; nobody's perfect.”
“We're all made up of many parts, other halves. Not just me.”
Source: Middlesex
“We're all mankind and humankind - so just be one and show kindness.”
“We're all moons. Sometimes our dark sides overshadow our light.”
Source: Miles to Go: The Second Journal of the Walk Series
“We're all more or less interested in the 'swinging sixties', of course, but that's not what I mean. I'm interested in the particular naive glamour that clings to the post-war and pre-Hendrix era.”